When first used in English in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, physics meant ‘natural science’, especially the Aristotelian system of natural science; hence, natural philosophy in the wider sense. But Aristotle’s Physics did not penetrate to the Divine Origin of the Universe, ignoring the root meaning of the word, which is ‘origin, nature’.

Then, gradually over the years, physics moved further and further away from Reality, becoming a narrow specialism, today generally meaning the science of matter and energy, whose laws are regarded as sacrosanct, applicable to all the sciences, including psychology.

In contrast, the true physicists are mystics, who live in union with the Divine, which is Nature, where all forms are born. Then looking at the Cosmos through the eyes of information systems architects in business, panosophers associate energy with meaning, not just mass, absolutely essential if we are to understand what is causing scientists and technologists to drive the pace of change at unprecedented rates of exponential acceleration.

Physics and metaphysics then become unified, recognizing that the basic building block of the Universe is Aristotle’s concept of being, not a putative subatomic particle.